The NRCC slashed $1.2 million “in late advertising in the expensive Las Vegas media market, a sign the party no longer has confidence” that former Rep. Cresent Hardy (R) can beat former Rep. Steven Horsford (D) in the open-seat NV-04 race. “The NRCC had spent about $3 million” boosting Hardy. “The only public poll in the race, conducted last week by Emerson College, showed Horsford up 36-34 percent. “Privately, Republicans have said the race is not as close. One senior Republican official said the NRCC decided to move its money simply because it is needed in too many other places.” (The Hill)

A new web video from the NRCC features St. Louis County Commissioner Pete Stauber (R), who is running MN-08, discussing the 1995 incident in which he was shot while he was sitting in his car and expressing his support for the Second Amendment.

The DCCC is airing a Spanish-language ad in FL-27 connecting television journalist Maria Elvira Salazar (R) to President Trump. (YouTube) The Democratic group also launched an ad against Rep. Leonard Lance (R) in NJ-07 over health care. (Twitter)

CLF reported a $495,000 buy in MN-01, $317,000 in WI-01, $379,000 in VA-07, $268,000 in NY-22, $110,000 in NE-02, $180,000 in MN-03, $114,000 in KS-03, $471,000 in IL-12, $418,000 in CA-39, $285,000 in CA-48. (FEC) The super PAC released ads in: CA-25, CA-45, a Spanish-language radio ad and a TV spot in FL-27, and WA-08. (Twitter)

America First Action, which supports Trump, reported buys totaling $827,000 in ME-02, $1.4 million in NV-03, $614,000 in PA-10, and $618,000 in WV-03. (FEC)

The League of Conservation Voters announced a $567,000 digital ad campaign in three districts: IL-14, MN-02 and TX-32, where the group will run twospots. (release)

The NRA Political Victory Fund will air ads in NC-13 and MN-08. (Medium Buying)

Defending Main Street is running an ad blasting millionaire philanthropist Scott Wallace (D) in PA-01 for his ties to “convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.” The six-figure buy will run through Oct. 31. (release)

AZ-02: Former Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (D) claims in a TV ad that Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce President Lea Marquez Peterson (R) wants to privatize Social Security to benefit her “Wall Street supporters” at the expense of seniors. The spot is airing on broadcast and cable in Tucson. (release)

MI-08: In her latest TV ad, former Defense Department official Elissa Slotkin (D) highlights her record in the CIA under presidents from both parties and her pledge not to accept money from special interests, contrasting that with Rep. Mike Bishop (R) who has taken money from the pharmaceutical industry. (YouTube)

NC-13: Former immigration attorney Kathy Manning (D) released an ad saying she will support lower taxes for working people and small businesses, but not “tax giveaways for big corporations and billionaires.” (Twitter)

NJ-03: Former State Department official Andy Kim (D) highlights his experience in the White House Situation Room in a TV ad, noting that he will work with both parties to “put the lives of New Jersey families before politics.” (release)

NY-01: Rep. Lee Zeldin’s (R) latest ad paints businessman Perry Gershon (D) as a liar, featuring a district resident who claims Gershon lied to him and angrily engaged him over the Democrat’s investments in offshore drilling. (Twitter)

OH-07: Former Navy pilot Ken Harbaugh (D) released a TV ad discussing his time in the military working with others regardless of political party. He also notes Rep. Bob Gibbs (R) took contributions from health care insurance companies.(YouTube)

PA-07: A new ad from former Allentown solicitor Susan Wild (D) features a cancer survivor criticizing former Olympic cyclist Marty Nothstein (R) for wanting to end pre-existing condition protections. (YouTube)

An ad from Nothstein accuses Wild of being a “career politician” who supports congressional pensions and collects “a lavish, tax-payer funded pension” from her job as Allentown solicitor “on top of a six-figure salary”. However, “Her mandatory financial disclosure form says that she has a Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement asset worth between $1,001-15,000. Her campaign said, more specifically, the asset is worth $6,000. She has not earned a six-figure salary from the public sector,” but she has earned six figures working in the private sector. (Allentown Morning Call)

"The White House on Monday said that CNN correspondent Jim Acosta's press pass has been 'restored,' bowing to days of pressure and a federal lawsuit against the administration. CNN signaled that it would drop the ongoing litigation over Acosta's access to the White House."

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"The 5,800 troops who were rushed to the Southwest border amid President Donald Trump’s pre-election warnings about a refugee caravan will start coming home as early as this week — just as some of those migrants are beginning to arrive. The timing is bound to fuel renewed accusations that the entire exercise amounted to a ploy by the president to use active-duty military forces as a prop to try to stem Republican losses in this month’s midterm elections, despite the absence of any legitimate threat to U.S. national security."

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"U.S. border officials on Monday shut down all vehicular traffic flowing north from Mexico into California at the country's busiest border crossing and diverted staff to help bulk up the infrastructure and security there, in anticipation of the arrival of thousands of migrants traveling in caravans from Central America. The San Ysidro port of entry, which processes 20,000 pedestrians and 70,000 vehicles moving from Tijuana to San Diego each day, closed all passenger and commercial lanes and one of its two pedestrian crossings."

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Sens. Richard Blumenthal, Mazie Hirono, and Sheldon Whitehouse have "filed a lawsuit challenging the appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general," which argues that "the appointment of Whitaker violates the Constitution because he has not been confirmed by the Senate. The complaint asks a judge to declare the appointment unconstitutional and to prevent him from serving as head of the Justice Department."